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Polte
By
Sami Van IngenDuration
15 MIN
Language
- without dialogue
Country
Finland
Year
2018
Synopsis
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at la Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.
Direction
Sami Van Ingen
Sami van Ingen is one of the pioneers of experimental filmmaking in Finland. He has made over 30 short films, mostly dealing subtly with the act of seeing and using various strategies to manipulate found or forgotten footage. His films have been screened at festivals like Edinburgh Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires and at institutions like National Gallery of Art in Washington...
Music
Henri Lindström
Sound designer
Olli Huhtanen
Author
Sami Van Ingen
Producer
Jussi Eerola
Mika Taanila
